[Sugar-devel] Tag designs (was Re: [DESIGN] UI mockups)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Aug 19 13:16:09 EDT 2009


On 19.08.2009, at 18:41, Gary C Martin wrote:

> On 19 Aug 2009, at 17:19, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>>> [forwarded from christian]
>>>
>>> several options for the Journal,
>>> exploring various toolbars, the grid view, and tagging;
>>>
>>> [1] http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/090818_journal_thumbnails.pdf
>>
>>
>> I like the tags icon. It should be used throughout to indicate tags
>> (currently it's missing in the menu palette showing tags).
>>
>> For selecting tags, instead of the vertical list which wastes screen
>> real estate due to different tag lengths, why not lay them out
>> horizontally wrapped (using the same white rounded rects as in the
>> menu), using the whole width of the screen? This would work either in
>> a hover palette, or a panel at the bottom of the screen.
>
> Kind'a like these mock-ups?
>
> 	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Journal#Tags_palette


Yes, though there needs to be a search pane like in Christian's  
mockups. And potentially we need to deal with lots of tags, so using  
more of the screen plus scroll bars seems to be necessary.

- Bert -




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